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Of Conspiracy and Controversy: A Pedagogy of Conspiracy Theories
Educational Theory, Volume 72, Issue 3, Page 257-280, June 2022., 2022 Abstract The growth of academic discussion about teaching controversial topics in the classroom has been matched by parallel studies into conspiracy theories in recent decades. Despite the interdisciplinary interest in the latter, there has been very little discussion of conspiracy theories within educational discourse.
Glenn Bezalel
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Incremental Propensity Score Effects for Criminology: An Application Assessing the Relationship Between Homelessness, Behavioral Health Problems, and Recidivism [PDF]
, 2023 This study examines the relationship between homelessness and recidivism among people on probation with and without behavioral health problems. The study also illustrates a new way to summarize the effect of an exposure on an outcome, the Incremental Propensity Score (IPS) effect, which avoids pitfalls of other approaches commonly used in criminology ...
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Analyses of Baby Name Popularity Distribution in U.S. for the Last 131 Years [PDF]
Complexity, 18(1):44-50 (2012), 2012 We examine the complete dataset of baby name popularity collected by U.S. Social Security Administration for the last 131 years (1880-2010). The ranked baby name popularity can be fitted empirically by a piecewise function consisting of Beta function for the high-ranking names and power-law function for low-ranking names, but not power-law (Zipf's law)
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Average Rank and Adjusted Rank Are Better Measures of College Student Success than GPA
Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, Volume 41, Issue 4, Page 23-34, Winter 2022., 2022 Abstract I show that there are better measures of student college performance than grade point average (GPA) by undertaking a fine‐grained empirical investigation of grading within a large public university. The value of using GPA as a measure of comparative performance is undermined by academically weaker students taking courses where the grading is ...
Donald Wittman
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Designing for Contestation: Insights from Administrative Law [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 A paper presented at the Workshop on Contestability in Algorithmic Systems at CSCW 2019. Challenging algorithmic decisions is important to decision subjects, yet numerous factors can limit a person's ability to contest such decisions. We propose that administrative law systems, which were created to ensure that governments are kept accountable for ...
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The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, Volume 61, Issue 4, Page 463-483, December 2022., 2022 Abstract This article proposes that loved ones supporting prisoners with experience of remand in England and Wales may use Sykes & Matza's (1957) ‘techniques of neutralization’ by proxy. Adopting neutralisations may enable those in prison to be viewed not as those who have harmed, or bad people, but as those who themselves have been harmed.
Isla Masson, Natalie Booth
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Brazilian prisons in times of mass incarceration: Ambivalent transformations
The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, Volume 61, Issue 4, Page 502-518, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Most of the scholarship on the ‘punitive turn’ has claimed that there have been two main trends in punishment since the 1970s: the rise of incarceration rates (quantitative dimension) and the worsening of prison conditions (qualitative dimension).
Luiz Dal Santo
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Explanatory Journeys: Visualising to Understand and Explain Administrative Justice Paths of Redress [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Administrative justice concerns the relationships between individuals and the state. It includes redress and complaints on decisions of a child's education, social care, licensing, planning, environment, housing and homelessness. However, if someone has a complaint or an issue, it is challenging for people to understand different possible redress paths
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The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, Volume 61, Issue 4, Page 519-539, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Research into desistance from crime has progressed enormously in the past three decades. Despite this tremendous growth, some issues remain unexplored. Among these is the extent to which the reasons why people stop offending might vary by the age at which they stop, and their previous lifestyles.
Stephen Farrall, Joanna Shapland
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From Orphans to Families in Crisis: Parental Rights Matters in Maine Probate Courts [PDF]
, 2017 This Article examines the sources of the contemporary problems associated with the adjudication of parental rights matters in Maine\u27s probate courts and identifies specific reforms to address both the structural and substantive law problems.
Smith, Deirdre M.
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